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Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. As I think the Minister of State pointed out, it is one of several interventions this Government and the previous one have sought to introduce to address issues we raise consistently, in this House and beyond, in respect of the enormous difficulties facing our society and our economy in the area of housing provision due to a lack of...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: Nervously.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his positive contribution. Even in a short time he has travelled a considerable journey in terms of articulating that political signal and making it very clear that he wants that issue resolved in the interest of secretarial assistants and the sustainability and attractiveness of that employment. It is always a concern with public service negotiators that they may...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: As the Minister knows, I spoke at length on this issue on Second Stage and I provided him with the wisdom of my experience as a former secretarial assistant back in the day. It was my first full-time job in politics so I have seen this system evolve over the last 20 years and it has not always evolved in a positive fashion. It has been nothing other than regressive for secretarial...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (2 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Pensions Council is undertaking a cost transparency initiative in respect of the costs and charges applied to the management of private pensions; the details on the nature and timeline of the initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59674/21]

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I heard the Minister of State clearly. The variable here seems to be sea depths. You cannot compare a proposition in Germany with a proposition in the Irish Sea. That is the variable. Am I right?

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: That is the answer.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: That is the variable. It is a demonstrable fact.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: Is this to do with the nature of our shoreline? The Irish seabed drops off quite significantly. It would be useful if the Minister of State put on the record of the House his considerations regarding Deputy Boyd Barrett’s amendment. Much of the time, I find myself going two thirds of the way with Deputy Boyd Barrett. That is probably illustrative of how broad the left spectrum is....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 36: In page 10, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “Limit of duration of permission 6.Section 40 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3): “(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3), where a planning authority grants a permission to which section 32A(1) applies— (a) ‘the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: That is a reasonable assessment, as I understand it, of the Minister's interpretation of the engagement on this in the Seanad. It was, as he correctly pointed out, an attempt by Senators Wall and Moynihan to ensure that lessons that have been drawn from the SHD process could be applied to this process. It is deeply frustrating, in all our communities and constituencies, when we see...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased we are having this debate. It is more than timely. To the best of my recollection, although I have not checked the transcripts of the debate on the previous Bill, we did not have this conversation three years ago. That is unfortunate. It is a conversation we should have had in this Chamber, but it appears we did not. The fact we are doing so now is illustrative of the degree...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (30 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will publish the updated national mitigation plan and the national adaptation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58684/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (30 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 470. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangements that can be made to provide a temporary permission to leave and return to this country to a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58273/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (30 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 493. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who were on each children's disability services' caseload in June 2021 by county; the number of children's cases which were reviewed and discharged from each children's disability services to date in 2021 by county; the number of families consulted either in person or through online video call as stakeholders and advocates for their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (30 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 494. To ask the Minister for Health the services now available to children with disabilities who are not on the caseload of the new children's disability network teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58784/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (30 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 495. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physical therapy and behavioural support, respectively; the number of professionals employed directly by the HSE for each service in each CNT in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58785/21]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Like my colleague the Labour Party housing spokesperson, Senator Moynihan, I want to give this Bill a cautious but qualified welcome. Any initiative designed to expedite the development of much-needed homes across the country, especially in urban areas where demand is high, is welcome. We would all agree on that. The theory was that the SHD legislation passed by the previous Oireachtas was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which his officials last met formally with members of an association (details supplied); the actions agreed at the meeting; if he will provide an update on plans by his Department to agree a framework within which a potential revised dental treatment services scheme may be agreed with dental service providers; his views on whether an independent...